Animals are like children — the way one treats either reveals a lot about their character. Both animals and children are vulnerable creatures who can only communicate through body language and cries (or, in the case of older children, English).
While, for most people, this status of relative helplessness elicits a particularly nurturing and kindhearted response, some particularly miserable and selfish individuals choose to violate and exploit these beings that can’t fight back.
There are the more egregious cases of animal cruelty; only recently, a Georgia resident was convicted of federal dogfighting charges.
There’s the ordinary cases of animal cruelty; most state criminal anti-cruelty laws prohibiting unnecessary animal suffering exempt
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